The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1887-07-23

l'Oil DoIuCIlIS vi OWCH SOuity.
One and half miles of road would
connect at Elmville with the
Owenton & Georgetown road.
This section, and all in and beyond
for miles, would come here.
Three or four miles Of road would
connect at or near Morgadore.
and control the country beyond to
Monterey. All this country is
friendly to Frankfort-do not say
we are a set of thieves and rob-
bers"-and will come and are
anxious to get here. have talk
ed about this connection for years,
and have been told by members Of
the court they were doing it as
fast as they could. Citizens of
Franklin county look at the above
showing.
II should say to Benson, Bald
Knob and Flat Creek, if they pay
all they are assessed, it amounts
only to SI,535.35. There are two
or three individuals in town that
pay more taxes than all this Sec
ton put together, besides Frank
fort pays more than two-thirds Of
the taxes, and of course has to
pay more than two-thirds of the
appropriations. If the county
|records are looked into. and tn
aggregate amount, for the past
twenty years, that has been paid
this section Of the county, is
found to be as is alleged, the
balance OF the county will wonder
and say why was it done? l will
answer by saying this section votes
solidly one way-which ever way
they vote-they have carried the
county. They have been "cater-
ed" to by politicians and tit is the
opinion Of the people, by the
county court. This has been
common talk to my certain know
ledge for years. 1t is the COM
mon talk Of the county, and the
people of the balance of the coun-
ty have failed to overcome this
wonderful influence until recently,
and when they are overcome how
they "kick and squirm.
With all kindness, | tell them
their day has been run. have
no unkind feelings against them
| speak and write things that
should be looked into. These
same people, | learn, want to
secede and set up a county Of their
own, because they, one time,
failed to rule the county. But
they will learn things would not
run quite so smoothly, if by
themselves, as they have now.
That the railroad tax would be a
very small affair, unless they used
the State as they have been using
this county. think they will
find their influence with the State
of very small magnitude And if
they do not "secede,' they will
find it the same way in this county
in the future. | believe and know
there are just as clever men in
these precincts as there are in any
portion of the county, but | be-
lieve they have failed to under
stand, or, in other words, failed to
try to understand, the proposition
on the last railroad question; have
let some few individuals "hum-
bug them, and got themselves
keyed up" to such state Of
feeling that they would not allow
any. one to even talk to them on
the subject. | do not believe
there was one in five hundred of
them ever heard the proposition.
When speakers went to explain
to them, they would not listen,
but treated them with contempt.
This occurred in the Flat Creek
precinct, and this stopped the
effort on the part Of those favoring
the tax to explain to them.
|, myself, a day or two before
the election, tried to explain to a
crowd of fifteen or twenty, on St.
Clair street, every one of whom